The storm came through low around 1am, maybe 130, doesnt matter, I had the phone up before I decided to hold it up, that happens more now than it used to and I am not going to pretend it doesnt. I got one frame before the thunder actually hit the glass and in that one frame the bolt is not two streets over where the radar people would put the cell, it is right here, right over my own roofline, and every other window on the block is dark because it's 1am and people sleep, mine was not, mine was LIT, because I was standing in it, phone up, and that is not a coincidence I am willing to entertain twice.

I keep the collar thing from the porch step in mind for a reason, same shape of thing, something puts itself exactly where I already am and then makes sure I can prove it later (the porch camera missed this one too, batteries, third set this month, I havent gotten to the bottom of why they die faster on that unit specifically than the two by the gate. Anyway. They knew which window was mine before I bothered doing the math on the roofline myself. They always do the tall thing first, then the room underneath it, in that order, its the same shape as the dead channel count if you go back far enough, different antenna, different roof, same order, mast then the one lit room below.

It was Thursday. No, would have had to be Friday, the bins were already at the curb in the driveway shot from that week, doesnt matter, the point stands. Third time this year the sky has lined up with my address and not the address two doors down and I am not counting the hail, hail doesnt have a shape. This had a shape. I traced it on the screen with my finger before I even pulled it into anything to look closer, straight down the fork to the shingle line. Third.